Coarse hair or nap, or rough wooly hair. True Witney broadcloth, with its shag unshorn. Gay.

Akind of cloth having a long coarse nap.

In orinthology, an aquatic fowl, the Pelecanus graculus; in the north of England called the crave.

Hairy; shaggy.

To make rough or hairy.& Shag the green zone that bounds the boreal skies. J. Barlow.

To make rough or shaggy; to deform.